Gulzar was defending child, court told

Dutch-born dancer Jimmy Gulzar, the former husband of Spice Girl Mel B, did smack a child during a visit to a zoo, a court was told today.

But in order to show that he was guilty of assault the Crown had to prove that when he smacked an autistic three-year-old boy he was not acting in reasonable self-defence of another, John Burton, defending, told Horseferry Road magistrates’ Court in central London.